CVE-2022-4700

Royal Elementor Addons <= 1.3.59 - Insufficient Access Control to Theme Activation

2023-01-10 00:00
Ram

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 1.3.60
Affected Plugin
Royal Addons for Elementor – Addons and Templates Kit for Elementor
Affected Version
<= 1.3.59
CVSS
5.4Medium
Weakness type
CWE-284 · Improper Access Control
CVE
CVE-2022-4700
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At a glance

CVE-2022-4700 is a medium-severity Improper Access Control vulnerability in the Royal Addons for Elementor WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.3.59. It carries a CVSS score of 5.4 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). The issue is fixed in version 1.3.60; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed January 2023, reported by Ram.

Vulnerability Overview

The Royal Elementor Addons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to insufficient access control in the 'wpr_activate_required_theme' AJAX action in versions up to, and including, 1.3.59. This allows any authenticated user, including those with subscriber-level permissions, to activate the 'royal-elementor-kit' theme. If no such theme is installed doing so can also impact site availability as the site attempts to load a nonexistent theme.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no interaction from a victim user.

CWE-284: Improper Access Control

Royal Addons for Elementor <= 1.3.59 carries this weakness at wpr_activate_required_theme, and reaching it takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Improper access control means the code decides what a caller may do using something other than their actual permissions, so the decision can be wrong without any check appearing to be missing.

Whoever can shape the request decides the answer, so the protected action runs for callers the code never meant to allow. For Royal Addons for Elementor the fix is 1.3.60: builds <= 1.3.59 are affected, anything from 1.3.60 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 1.3.60, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

Because it turns on account access, WordSec's login security is the relevant layer: role-based two-factor, captcha and brute-force limits raise the cost of getting the account this needs. None of that substitutes for the fix: Royal Addons for Elementor 1.3.60 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

  • Login Security
  • Alerts

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-4700https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/cdd464ad-24bc-4922-8bfa-ac42fbe60b52https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-4700

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